The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-25
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
Personal Gossip About Female Journalists
Their Work and Their Success.

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Estelle NJ. Hatch. the terrace Kincaid" of the
Boston Globe, was a reporter for that paper for
| year before she taken into the editorial
| rooms OF that experience in brief chat some
| days since she said:
For year at the call of the paper general
reporter taking my assignments just the the
men | reported sermons. lectures. public meetings
OF all kinds where women formed part of the audi
ence and wrote up general news OF many sorts dur
ing the day Hook back upon that year as one into
which the experience of three four crowded.
enjoyed 1t greatly and met with great deal OF kind
ness my felow-reporters quite taking me IN as one OF
/ themselves.
One of the best known of New York news
| paper women to newspaper readers is Mrs Fan
| ME B. Merrill. formerly of tho Graphic, now Of
| the World, very bright woman and very
| clover journalist
Miss Midy Morgan, the cattle reporter on the
| New York Times. and probably the best posted
authority on live stock in America, exacts some
| thing more than respect,-admiraton-fo her
success in a phase of newspaper work the most
| difficult In many ways that a woman could I'M
| dertake. Going day after day, year in and year
out, up TO the cattle pens by the river and out on
| the stock farms-she is vivacious and inter-
| estlng outside of her work reliable in it. To
| the query what she thinks of newspaper work
| as a business for women, she returns the char
acteristic line:
AS entered journalism by chance and remain in it
| through spirit of dleness feel incompetent to
| guide others.
Miss Lillian Whiting. the literary editor Of
the Boston Traveller. is widely known as q Bos-
| ton correspondent. She gives me a picture of
certain pleasant fields in journalism. OF her
| work she says:
ature edtorship of the Traveller with all that it i'm
| plies. the book reviewing being only
itorials each day sometimes six eight but
tirely at my own discretionl keep column, perma-
with book reviews and literary notes. judge all
script submitted select all the poetry and all the lit
room. carpeted picture-hung, with bookshelves
magnificent desk, etc, all fitted up for have it,
kind and charming. The proprietor Col Worthing-
ton is so generous and good to me that my one
Brunswick Hotel. where have telephone communi-
cation with the Office and although am always at
the office in the morning do much of my quiet
work In my own rooms at home.
Boston is the paradise of newspaper women.
Miss Grace Soper, who is a clever editorial
writer on the Boston Journal, expresses satIsfac-
ton with her work and genuine liking for it.
Minnie Caroline Smith. of the Boston Adver-
tissr. is plucky Western GIRL who for a
long time on the Chicago Inter Ocean. She, too
likes newspaper work and succeeds in it.
Miss Mary L. Booth. the editor of Harpers
Bazaar, puts as the requisite for woman's sue
cess in journalistic work. the ability for continu-
Gus effort. She herself keeps daily Office hours,
from until a, and for nineteen years. that is.
from he day Of the foundation of the periodi
cal, she had not taken more than two weeks
vacation as a time until her European outing of
this summer. She says:
Like womans work. editorial work is never DONE
and the planning of which it very largely consists
goes night and day without interruption.
Miss Marietta Holley, Josiah Aliens Wife,"
is not especially fond of interviewers and is ant
long time ago. however. that her experiences
with newspaper women were often like that Of
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, who one oc.
casion did her utmost to escape seeing q CORE
spondent. but after a half hours talk made up
for her previous back wardness by exclaiming
with some warmth: "On like you! Can't you
come again?"
1nterviewers of the sex masculine dislike to
get points from a woman sometimes. because
they say she always wants to see the note book.
the pencil and the other paraphernala come
out, and to De sure her sentences taken
down verbatim This is not the experience Of
feminine interviewer with her own sex,
however. The womanS punctilio with q
reporter is mainly put to let him
know she has been through the operation before
and understands the mechanism and the proprie-
ties of the occasion The reporter may find her
ready enough to talk to him. but he has nc idea
how she un bosoms herself to a newspaper woua-
an whom she trusts. Be she writer, lecturer.
educator. a charities board, whatever her do
ings. her plans or her prospects, with a woman
she has thought of lead pencil formalities
She knows she is talking with who
very likely looks at the matter from the same
point of view with herself, and she is frank
and confidential as if she chatted to her
own shadow. interviewing women commonly is
very easy and very pleasant work for women.
Last spring. when the announcements was
made that Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was
coming to New York to reside in the fall, the
house of Mrs. Sylvanus Reed, in whose school
Miss Cleveland had engaged to teach, was
haunted for day two by reporters. mostly
women. to get the latest developments for publ
cation. 1t happened that enterprising
newsgatherer, resertng device not alto
gether unknown among newspaper men, pre-
scented herself to Mrs Reed not accredited
reporter, but as the mother of little girl whom
she wished to enter in the school, With a
parents pardonable interest she piled Mrs.
Reed with questions about Miss Cleve-
lands attachments. her exact position in
the school and Mrs. Reeds opinion of her capa-
bilities. and that lady, wholly unaware that she
talking for cold type, spoke freely, and ex-
perienced something of surprise Co see a
sprightly and very readable exaggeration of her
remarks in a morning paper next day. Mrs.
Reed was unable to remember the personal APP
pearance of her betrayer and the next feminine
reporter who visited her would have met cold
reception if she had not been able to produce
satisfactory evidence that she was not the guilty
She Women take the news seeming of a
culine reporter for granted. but they visit the
sins of their own with severe punishments.
All newspaper women suffer when one is q little
too clever
newspaper work does not multiply very rapidly.
the organization of women's press associations
testifes to the fact THAI the women who are In it
expect to stay. The Womens National Press
Association was organized in New Orleans dur
ing the exposition, and branches have sprung
up in several States. The most hourishing of
these probably are the Chicago association and
the New England association, which numbers
among it's members Alice Stone Blackwell and.
Mrs. Vogel. of the Woman's Journal Mrs.
Marion Mcbride, of the Boston Post: Mrs Sallie
Jov White, of the Herald Mrs. Kate Tannatt
Woods. as we'll as represeu tatives of good por-
ton of the papers published in Massachusetts,.
Mrs Louisa Knapp. who receives So 900 year
for editing the Philadelphia Home Journal, does
her work under conditions pleasant often
fall to the lot of journalist. Her business
Office is at her home in Camden N. j., and is
full OF pictures and flowers. She has telephone
connections with the Philadelphia establishment
and directs the smallest details of the work.
ELIZA p. HEAToN
Feminine Gossip.
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